Tetum also known as Tetun, belongs to the Austronesian family of language. It is spoken mainly on the island of Timor. Tetum is spoken by around 800,000 people mainly in East Timor, where it is an official language, along with Portuguese. Thou Tetum has standardised orthography, still there are many spelling variations in Tetum language.
Tatar also known as Kazan Tatar is a Turkic language spoken by the Tatars mainly in Tatarstan and Bashkortostan. It is mainly spoken in Russia with about 5.3 million speakers. It is the official language of the Republic of Tatarstan along with Russian. The official script of Tatar language is mostly based on the Cyrillic script.
Tamasheq is a variety of Tuareg, principally spoken in the area around Timbuktu. There are two divergent dialects, Timbuktu and Tadghaq. The name Tamasheq is sometimes applied to the Tuareg languages in general. There are around one million speakers of Tamasheq.
Tajik, also known as Tajik Persian or Tajiki, is a variety of modern Persian spoken in Central Asia. There are around 4.5 million native speakers of Tajik language. It is the official language of Tajikistan and most speakers of Tajik language live in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. In Afghanistan it is known as Dari as the Tajik dialect here is less influenced by Turkic languages.
Tahitian is an indigenous language and it is spoken mainly in the Society Islands in French Polynesia. It is an Eastern Polynesian language closely related to the other indigenous languages spoken in French Polynesia. In French Polynesia, it is the most prominent of the indigenous Polynesian languages. A Tahitian spelling system using the Latin alphabet was developed by and proposed on 8th March 1805.
Syriac is a dialect of Middle Aramaic that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent. It first appeared as a script in the 1st century AD and is written in the Syriac alphabet. It has been recognized as an official minority language in Iraq. It is used nowadays as ritual and literary language by Neo-Aramaic people in Syria.
Swahili, also known as Kiswahili, is a Bantu language and it is the native language of Swahili people. It is spoken by various communities in the African Great Lakes region. There are around 140 million speakers of Swahili language. Swahili is the national or official language of Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Also, some Swahili vocabulary is derived from Arabic.
Sumerian is the language of ancient Sumer and it was spoken in southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). It developed from the pictographs and many other symbols made on clay tablets. Later it was replaced by Akkadian as a spoken language. Sumerian is classified as a language isolate as it is not related to any other known language.
Sukuma is a Bantu language and it is spoken in different regions of Tanzania. As of 2005, there were around 5.43 million native speakers of Sukuma language. Its different dialects are easily mutually intelligible.
The two Sorbian languages are closely related to each other – Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian. These languages are spoken by the sorbs in eastern Germany. There are around 50,000 speakers of the Sorbian languages. The area where these languages are spoken is known as Lusatia. Sorbian first appeared in writing during the 16th century.